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This from the Daily Mail:
Trust the FA Cup to serve up a neat connection to John Motson, with Barnet at Newport in the second round on Saturday.
Ricky George scored a hat-trick when Barnet, then of the Southern League, thrashed fourth-tier Newport 6-1 back in November 1970. No League team have suffered a heavier defeat against non-League opposition in the competition.
Ronnie Radford was in the Newport side that day, and the next season both he and George were scoring for Hereford United as they beat Newcastle in a third-round replay. Motson, who died in February at the age of 77, was in the commentary box on BBC duty that day.
A Barnet supporter and a friend of George, they had travelled together to the game that would propel them into football folklore along with Billy Meadows, another former Barnet player then at Hereford.
After
arguably the greatest FA Cup giantkilling, they drove back to London
and enjoyed Match of the Day at Meadows’ house with fish and chips and a
few cans of lager.